400LBS. OF POTATOES Harvest and Storing for Winter (+tips!)
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I love you and You need get care of us! I'm gonna join with us about harvest 🥰
I'm old enough to be your grandma and was raised on a subsistence style farm and while I already know much of what you are doing, I still enjoy watching your family.
I'm sure you have heard the story about the husband who asks his new wife why she cut the end of the ham before baking. She told him that was how her mother always did it and her mother was a good cook and since she wanted to be a good cook also she followed her mother's example.
She went to her mother and asked why she always cut the end off the ham before cooking. The mother said she always wanted to be as good a cook as her mother and since her mother always cut the end of the ham she did too.
They then went to see her grandma to ask her what the purpose of cutting the end of the ham was. Grandma replied, "I cut it off so it would fit in the pan."
Sometimes that can be how it is to come from multi-generational farmers. You just start doing the same thing your parents did without asking why even though as we are finding out, there may be better ways to do something.
The nice thing about your videos is you two are natural teachers. You explain the whats and whys and you don't just continue doing the same thing mindlessly, like when you decided to rip out most of your rhubarb because it was so much more than your family could use. I cringed thinking you could just sell the extra or give it away each year since you had it established. But the two of you are very intentional and had a plan for that growing space plus if you start growing excessive amounts of things, even perennials, it starts chipping away at your available time for the crops you do want.
You are a very wise couple and it is a pleasure watching how you manage everything it takes to make a successful homestead without getting so busy that you forget the most important part; family.
What a lovely comment!
Thank you for sharing. Really appreciate the kind words.😊
Not sure if this would help. But one of my main mantras is worrying only makes you suffer twice. I say this as it may help you with the overwhelm. Worrying and stressing about all of the constant harvesting. You need to accept that’s your reality and try not to worry. It’s definitely a skill that you develop overtime.
Too much thinking is the disease. There is no suffering which doesn't start with thinking.
I’m sure this works with all of life’s challenges thanks
@@eagledice2008 quieting the incessant mind chatter is a constant exercise, but it leads to peace and tranquility. It's a discipline for sure.
@@eagledice2008 yea it definitely applies to pretty much everyone in almost every situation. Hence why it is one of my mantras
'Worrying only makes you suffer twice.' I love that.
I'm so glad to see your generation accepts help for things like mental health. I'm 65. My generation did not. I can't understand why not. Your garden is just wonderful! Great job family!!!
P.S. you're teaching your children love , great grown food, canning, friendship. Just everything! I bow to y'all! Fantastic!!!
Thank you so much!😊
We make our own raspberry lemonade as well. Last year my wife discovered that adding mint leaves at the time of serving makes it even better, especially in summer when it's hot.
Yum!😋
Yes thought of that too!
I love y’all so much. Not just for the content, but for the sweet spirits too.
So kind, thank you!😌
Digging up my potatoes is one of my favorite things to do in the garden. Thanking the Lord for our harvests!
I find if I feel overwhelmed with a huge harvest, I remind myself this is a blessing from God! Thank you for this amazing harvest Lord, then I share it with my family and friends, passing on the blessing is very rewarding.
Such a great perspective.😊❤️
This is how we felt with our tomato harvest earlier on in the year.
“When you have more than you need, build a bigger table not a bigger fence”
Cody, I'm sure you've done it already but if not, please secure the new racks to the wall. These racks are known to topple over when they have weight on them and I'd hate to see one of the kids get caught underneath all those potatoes.
CODY....DO NOT put wheels on them!
I had two collapse on me with canned food.
...it was painful....
Beautiful potatoes 🥔 Jason/Sow THE Land built his own cold room. He built one for Justin Rhodes as well. Justin said it was the best decision he's ever made. God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister 🙏🏻
I dug my potatoes already, a little early but my vines were dying very quickly. I ended up with 100 plus pounds a lot of big ones too. Super excited, up 20 pounds from last year. Congrats on your huge harvest!
That’s awesome!! Thank you!😊
“I can’t get out” omg your daughter sounds soooo precious!! Her little voice just melts my heart!! 💞💞 I love how you’re teaching and including your kiddos in the homestead tasks! My daughter just turned one, and I’m so excited to include her in everything! In the meantime, she gets a great view of what mommy does from her carrier on my back.
I can totally feel Michelle's excitement about the size of those potatoes! Those are some GORGEOUS potatoes! Mine are just starting to die back. 🤞🏻
Our family (children & adults) 😁 alike enjoy watching your self- sustaining videos. Thank you for all the encouragement & inspiration. To God be the glory in all you & family do!
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoy them!😊
What a wonderful harvest. You are now set for the winter for potatoes. Thank you for sharing with us.
For sure!😊
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! I planted an 80' row of heritage raspberry plants this spring. It took 8 years if failure before I finally found the spot in my yard that would grow raspberries successfully... we live in a swamp.... I might have gone overboard but they are my husband's favorite!
Glad it was finally successful for you! They are so good!😊
You are so hardworking that’s why you have a good harvest. GOD helps those who help themselves. HE rewards you with a bountiful harvest. Keep it up.
The beetles which lay the eggs that become those grubs seek out leaf litter piles, rotting down wood chip piles, and even compost piles when it's time to lay their eggs. The grubs chew on the decomposing carbonaceous materials. All that leaf litter in a thick layer around the potatoes was very attractive to them. Food for thought.
You are so right about the kids being happy when engaged in a positive way. They appreciate you and your husband more and changing your thoughts about the chores is 👍
Some days i go to my Bible and read all of the passages that tell us not to worry. I find it give me a good idea that God knows what we are going through and HE has our back. I also find that I don't work well tired where my husband can't sleep well if he thinks something needs to be done right now. Know what works for you. In my case a short nap gets me reset to go again. God bless y'all and keep growing.
Great idea.
A short nap does wonders for body and mind !!!!
Cody, have you ever thought about using a potato plow? My dad had one that you use with the tractor and it busts the potatoes right out of the ground. 😊
😂 I Love the kids fighting in the background lol my young kids are the same way. Love how you keep it real 😊 keep up the good work!
😄 thanks!
Your videos really help out my week it's what I look forward to the most
Glad to hear it!😊
Love all of the potatoes from your harvest. I appreciate all of your hard work.
I felt that first dig with the large potatoes coming up in my soul. Also, I highly recommend raspberry sorbet to use up the berries. Easy to keep it low sugar and can be dairy free.
That would be yummy!😋
That rack of potatoes looked amazing!
You have a lot of garden knowledge! I get overwhelmed too. I really want to either “preserve” or do the garden work, but not both . Lol
Cody I really like your new hairstyle it looks so much better on you than the other one
What a back handed compliment 😂
Not going insane-just blessed with a lovely garden & great gardening skills. Love the bucket in the pouch apron.
A company called U-line has those stackable bins 10 for $18/ 30 for $17 or 60 for $16 look under wire mesh bins 11"x5-1/2"x5"
Thank you!
Those are greatly smaller than what they've got, just so you are aware.
I was just about to say look on uline. They might not look 100% the same but it’s similar
@@MrsBrit1 they have a lot bigger i just put those first because that's what comes up first on the website
I just thought I would suggest looking at restaurant supply places for wire shelving, it's really reasonable and food safe, just a thought for the root cellar. Love all the videos.
Your garden is beautiful and your children are adorable!
Good harvest. With all the shelves, that will certainly help. Well done.
Thanks!😄
You and your family are a joy to watch. There's something calming about watching both of you.
It is such fun to watch you working with your children and the laughter that happens. Good work = good times. Those will be beautiful memories for your children in years to come. Bless y'all.
Absolutely!❤️
Are you guys going to grow or try growing any new food for next year?
So excited for your bountiful harvest. We had an awful year this year of growing anything this year. We did at least get to enjoy some new potatoes and make some awesome potato dishes, but not enough for long term storage. Oh well, there’s always next year. 😂 Also, another question I had…are the boards on your raised beds 1” thick? I know they were rough sawn but wasn’t sure if they were 1” or thicker. Thanks so much!
Remember that next year your kids will be one year older! We see them helping more and more...
Nice harvest! We got caught in the rain harvesting our potatoes this weekend. I was wondering if I should wash the mud off, and it sounds like that that is probably the way to go based on this video. Great tips, thank you!!
Loved the little blip of Nate from Kara and Nate!! Absolutely adore them! ❤ Great video guys!
Thanks!☺️
Consider a soda maker. You can make your own soda water. Just get the Co2 cans and replace them periodically at Target or wherever (we replace ours less than once a year and my hubby drinks a lot of seltzer water).
I ended up with about 100 lbs of potatoes this year. I used last years potatoes for my seed potatoes and the eyes were like a foot long. I will never do that again. I ended up with smaller potatoes than last year. Last year I had almost 200 lbs. We can never have enough potatoes. I have learned how to make the BEST crispy potato chips that stay crispy for days!!!! Then fried potatoes, baked, french fries. I can't think of any other food that we eat at almost every meal.
Yes they are so versatile and filling!😄
Where I live, if you let the ground dry out, you can't even put a shovel in it. Found that out the hard way this year trying to dig potatoes and carrots. Last year I just left the dirt on them and before I cooked I would brush them off and wash them
8:49 something I learned in my psych class is that stress is only harmful if you believe it is. Weirdly enough, the only people with high-stress lives who tend to get heart attacks earlier on are those that believe stress is bad. People who think stress can be helpful live longer, statistically.
Anyway thanks for another video! I’m 19 and doing college in a big city, but am working to gather knowledge for my future homestead. I love watching your videos while I work; it keeps me motivated.
That’s awesome! Good luck to you in all your future endeavors!😊
So much love for this episode! Thank you for being real with people and sharing your life with us.
Fandango movie clip? Wow, impressive potatoes! Yes, kids want to help most of the time, especially if you start letting them help when they are really young. It's hard, because everything takes 3 times as long to do, but how else will they learn to develop skills of all kinds?
Oh my God you guys made me green with envy!Those potatoes are to die for.Im here in south africa and our growing season has just started so now I need to go back and check how you planted them and what you added as hilling,I'm super Impressed
Potato rot is, no joke, the worst smell on the planet!
Love seeing the garden progress. We can't wait to have a homestead, hopefully, in the near future, across the country so I can grow raspberries. Can't grow them in the deep south.
Wow great potato harvest and lovely raspberry patch
Thanks!
For the baskets. Check Grainger Quantum storage hanging and stacking baskets.
❤wonderful harvest! Shorter time chunks seems to help me stay efficient. Canning is also a prep day- then can the next. 😊
Have you thought about dry canning some of the smaller potatoes. I have done this for two years. We love it! Such a quick meal on those busy days.
Found my recipe on Rebel Canners.
Congrats you guys. Beautiful harvest. Work well done.
Thank you!😄
Bravo! I am so impressed with your work ethic and big potatoes. I like Cody's new haircut.
It must be a great feeling knowing that 90% of your food is healthy, tasty, available and will keep you out of the grocery store where so many of us spend 2-3 hours a week driving to and fro and shopping.
Thank you! Yes it is!😂
awesome video guys keep up the good work learned a lot about farming and harvest from you guys
Thank you!😊
I have never grown potatoes partly because I’m a bad diabetic and potatoes are carbs. I wanted to try little red potatoes so I googled and it said sprouted red store spuds would grow so I planted three potatoes in 5 gallon buckets. My mother in law threw a fit because I wasted my money the spuds wouldn’t grow so I bumped them. Low and behold I harvested 3 dozen new red potatoes next I’m planting them in one of my raised beds love your channel
That’s awesome!
I just recently found you channel and I am really enjoying your videos! Raspberry Lemonade Fizz - YUM
Awesome! Glad you’re here!😊
You can get the shelving from a restaurant supply store. Everything has to be on stainless steel metal shelving a certain height off of the floor for food safety.
That apron! I have had so many times bringing in raspberries in my tshirt lol hands free bowl. Perfect
this harvest is amazing. I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart. It's always so educational to watch your videos and try it out yourself. Raspberry lemonade sounds delicious. I also have so many raspberries in the freezer, I'm going to try that. Thank you for your time, I love your videos so much.
Thank you! Hope you enjoy it!😊
Curious on when you planted the spuds. It looked like you mounted, but also saw what looked like mulch. Can you share your planting method? The yield was incredible.
You might be check the Container Store for the bins. Also there is a place place called Industrial Shelving.
Those fruits are a true reflection of your hard work
Those shelves have caster wheels that you can buy separately. Very convenient for when you have to move the shelves loaded or unloaded.
Make potato chips for kids, make them pluck berries so they can eat and enjoy their work😊
Yes the kids help a lot with berry picking!😊
Greetings from Syd -Aust. Wow, that's a monster harvest. I've never had much success with potatoes but that's inspirational for our upcoming summer. Well done guys. Cheers 👍👍😃😃
Congratulations....the end look in the seller ❤what a relief 😅❤❤❤
Look up ‘potato scab’. That might be what you have. Its not toxic and if you add extra sulfur to the soil next year it will diminish
Question - how did you get your raspberries so large? Mine are looking like half raspberries but this bunch is still young. Not sure how long to wait for large raspberries
I just wanna say , good job family,,your harvest was beautiful.
Thank you!
Those are just stackable wire mesh baskets, lots of places have them. ULINE, Medicus Health, SJF etc.
Thanks for the raspberry concentrate recipe. Our raspberries producing a bunch. I have cooked a bunch of mine just today and have about a quart and a half of pulp.Any idea how much pulp you have after removing seeds for raspberry amount given.
Can't wait to dig up my patch when we get back from vacation. Last year was the first year i stored potatoes from August until April thanks to watching your harvest videos.
Can i ask where you got your harvesting apron from?. That would be an amazing Christmas gift for my mother in law who is out picking blueberries and raspberries each year. She could stick her small colanders in them. ( I want one for me too)😊
Another great video.
That's so cool! Congrats! The Joey Apron would work great for that.. Sorry, I forgot to put the link in the description: roogardening.com/?ref=ggopwrij Use code morethanfarmers for 10% off!
@@morethanfarmers thank you so much!
If you're able, set up an electric fence, once you've got the potatoes in and let your chickens in the beds to pick out the grubs and fertilize the area.
A guy I used to work with did that and it worked great. Just a thought.
I'm impressed with the load of potatoes you harvested.
Where I live, you can even rent ducks to go through your garden and have them eat them. Those bigger ones have been in the ground for a few years though. The ones around here (different continent) stay in the ground for around four years before they turn into their final form and leave the ground. When they are smaller, they don't do as much damage, but big ones? Yeah, don't like those.
What a wonderful harvest. Congratulations!
Thank you!
You guys make hard and important work look easy! You all are so informative, inspirational, and motivating 😊
Oh the simple joy of harvesting potatoes 🥔 It’s like every one you dig out was making you happy. And you should be 🙌🏼
I loved Seven Brides!! When I first watched that (about 6years ago) I was laughing so much 😂 Great movie!
That song “Honey Come Take My Hand” is perfect ❤
Thanks so much!😊
The metal cubes are antique milk crates.
I love watching your videos, you are the cutest family Sherry New journey through Life to help others do the same God bless
Thank you!☺️
“I can’t get out.” So precious ❤
Thanks you for a beautiful video❤❤❤ 🕊️your honesty shows the reality of real life 🕊️🕊️
Abundance‼I love potatoes ❗ (born & raised in Ohio) so wonderful to see your children in the garden,,,,,truly THE BEST Life Lessons for Your Family💚💛💖💙💚
I love watching you folks and I love animals. I never see you talk to or pet the puppy. It needs love and attention😍
You know, you only see a very few minutes of their lives? And during that time, they’re teaching and sharing with us.
It gets plenty of love...its just not the focus of our videos
Great job guys! They look awesome. I would love some of that raspberry lemonade 🥰
Wow, great great harvest. One day at a time. Planting and processing most of your food does take a lot of time! Give yourselves some credit your doing a lot for your family! Do you have the freeze fresh book it's a real cool book. The raspberry lemonade drink looks very refreshing!Nancy from Nebraska
That's an amazing harvest of potatoes!! Way to go!
Oh my God, you guys watch Cara and Nate it’s so cool to see two unrelated TH-camrs that I both watch in the same video together super cool thanks
Those stackable vegetable bins look like the ones ULINE sells
You might consider getting a Soda Stream if you end up using a lot of carbonated water. In the long run it's cheaper than the bottles from the grocery store.
My God! So many potatoes! I love it!
You’re handling everything so well
Wow what a harvest! 🥔
That's was a nice big harvest. Great job to the whole family. Thank you for sharing. Till next time God Bless.
Thank you!😊
I 100% agree that it's so satisfying when u get a good harvest! My onions and garlic were that way this year ❤
That’s awesome!😊
Some good spuds sure store and last for ages
I love the reframing strategy to overcome overwhelm. Thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome!
Have you tried the raspberry lemonade concentrate in iced tea? That sounds like it’d be delicious
I have the same racks. Just a note of caution. Some veggies placed directly on those racks get indented by the racks after some time. I switched to laying cardboard over the metal to avoid this. Not sure of potatoes though. They may be hard enough to not get marked up.
Wow! Great job! ❤
Thanks!😊
What a beautiful harvest!
I like a buket on my belt for harvesting things 😊
I love your content. Last week's video however was very sad to me when you sold Maddie. It was a touching video and it made me cry.
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Great harvest!!! Can’t wait for your pantry tour this year 😊